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ATI X.Org Driver Gains Embedded DisplayPort

01-07-2010, 03:00 PM

Phoronix: ATI X.Org Driver Gains Embedded DisplayPort

AMD's Alex Deucher has just committed initial support for Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) connectors/monitors to the xf86-video-ati DDX display driver. Traditional DisplayPort monitors are already supported by this open-source ATI driver, but now Embedded DisplayPort connectors should begin to work as well...

So what kind of beast is this DP-DVI adapter? Something to plug into a graphics card's DP port, or something to plug into a monitor's DP port? Because I actually have a monitor with DP support, and it might be fun to try this out.

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So what kind of beast is this DP-DVI adapter? Something to plug into a graphics card's DP port, or something to plug into a monitor's DP port? Because I actually have a monitor with DP support, and it might be fun to try this out.

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So what kind of beast is this DP-DVI adapter? Something to plug into a graphics card's DP port, or something to plug into a monitor's DP port? Because I actually have a monitor with DP support, and it might be fun to try this out.

Something you plug into the DP port on your video card to connect a DVI monitor.

This is what I think he means: if the ATI card cannot find a display port signal at it's display port it won't use it's display port by default. Users will have to edit i2C when they connected something else at the display port in order for it to work. For example, because a user connected a DP-to-DVI cable.